Another "copyright" money grab

[Walter Dnes]

Full details at...
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=cccd9ce1-5279-4145-9874-a179b5be067f&k=26495
(Note; you may have to escape the ampersand in the URL).

Executive summary...

  After one money grab was thrown out by the Federal Court of Appeals,
the Private Copyright Coalition has made another request to the
Copyright Board for a blanket levy on media cards and Ipods and MP3
players in general.

  This affects everybody.  Media cards are mostly used in digital
cameras.  Their cost will go up.  The Ipod is actually a small computer
that can run linux ( http://ipodlinux.org ).  This is a foot in the back
door for going after your 320 gig hard drive.  The levy on that will be
awesome.

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